The Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998

As per the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 notified under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the occupier in relation to any institution generating bio-medical waste which includes a hospital, nursing home, clinic, dispensary, veterinary institution, animal house, pathological laboratory, blood bank by whatever name called; as well as an operator of a facility for the collection, reception, storage, transport, treatment, disposal etc, should apply in Form I and obtain authorisation of the Board, within notified time schedule. The statistics pertaining to action taken on authorisation applications under the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 is as follow:

Sr.

Particulars

During the year
2008 - 09

During the year
2009 - 10

Cumulative
(up to 31.3.2010)

1.

Applications for authorisation on hand

1875

3868*

18460

2.

Authorisation issued

1497

3462

16718

3.

Authorisation rejected

09

110

618

4.

Files closed

00

00

02

5.

Applications returned to applicant(s)

11

00

826

6.

Applications under scrutiny

358

296

296

* This includes 3510 applications received during the year 2009–10 and 358 applications pending from the previous year 2008-09.